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Tim Jackson contributes to new publication of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

With his think piece Angst essen Seele auf — Escaping the ‘iron cage’ of consumerism, Tim Jackson adds to an eclectic set of essays by co-contributing authors such as Vandana Shiva, Ashok Khosla and Richard B. Norgaard. Published in honour of Wolfgand Sachs, and drawing on a symposium held in May 2012, Wuppertal Spezial 48 takes the reader through various discourses of sustainable development...Read more

Britain in 2014 showcases the wide range of ESRC funded research through the contributions of leading social scientists, journalists and opinion-formers. Addressing the public, politicians, policy makers and media, the authors reflect on some of the UK's pressing issues...Read more

Drawing on a decade of work on lifestyles, sustainability, wellbeing and time use, Angela Druckman and Tim Jackson explore the premise that low carbon societies will be more successful if they don’t give up on the idea of people having fun. Not just fun as frivolity. But fun as fulfilment, the ability to participate fully in the life of society. And fun as flow – the opportunity for creative engagement in absorbing and challenging activities...Read more

A workshop on the development of a new global research project on children and youth consumption in cities organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group (SLRG) will be held in Paris, 11 December 2011...Read more

The latest issue of the research journal Global Environmental Change is dedicated to the topic of grassroots innovation for sustainability. It contains six original research articles which focus on the US and Europe, guest edited by SLRG Research Fellow Adrian Smith and Gill Seyfang...Read more

Bronwyn Hayward publishes "Reflections on the Earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, 2010 and 2011"

"When disasters threaten a community, whether they are a series of slow, cumulative, almost imperceptible daily changes like a change in climate or a sudden cataclysmic event like an earthquake, these challenges test more than our physical resilience. They tear at the fabric of our economies, our democracies, and our citizenship."...Read more

Angela Druckman and Bas Verblanken to give presentations at London event for policy makers and academics, 17 December 2013

Energy overuse at the national level is both a direct and an indirect result of the millions of decisions made in homes across the UK. In January 2013 the ESRC research project "The distribution and dynamics of UK citizens’ environmental attitudes, behaviours and actions" began looking at attitudes and actions of the British population towards environmental issues. This workshop will discuss some of the findings of this project...Read more

As part of the Urania lecture series “Wege in eine ökologische und gerechte Gesellschaft” (paths to an ecological and just society), Tim Jackson gives a presentation on Prosperity without Growth and discusses the vision of a thriving society within ecological limits. The debate is moderated by Marcus Franken, editor if the taz magazine zeo2...Read more

The 1,2,3 Go Social Event, under the patronage of the Ministry of Economy and Foreign Trade of Luxembourg and in the presence of Her Royal Highness, La Grande Duchesse, honours outstanding social enterprises. Tim Jackson will give a keynote speech on the role of social enterprises in a post-crisis economy...Read more

Supported by the Climate Change Collaboration, the RSA is holding a workshop on "Climate change: changing British behaviour in a global context" in London the 25th of November. A range of experts is invited to this high-level event to explore opportunities to change British behaviour in ways that will have a meaningful impact on the global climate problem. In drawing on the SLRG project work for mapping rebound effects from sustainable behaviour, Steve Sorrell will give a presentation on "Taking the Rebound Effect Seriously"...Read more

Tim Jackson gives keynote at Annual Parliamentary Hearing at the United Nations, New York 14 November 2013

Entitled Re-thinking sustainable development: the quest for a "transformational" global agenda in 2015, the Parliamentary Hearing was set up to channel the views of parliamentarians directly into the UN’s deliberative process that is currently led by an Open Working Group of the General Assembly on new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Focus of the meeting was the role of parliaments in the implementation of the new commitments for sustainable development. See the whole debatehere.